Food Habits

<p>Red foxes are essentially omnivores. They mostly eat <span class="taxon">Rodentia</span>, <span class="taxon"><em>Sylvilagus floridanus</em></span>, <span class="taxon">Insecta</span>, and fruit. They will also eat carrion. Red foxes also store food and are very good at relocating these caches. Red foxes have a characteristic manner of hunting <span class="taxon"><em>Peromyscus leucopus</em></span>. The fox stands motionless, listening and watching intently for a mouse it has detected. It then leaps high and brings the forelimbs straight down forcibly to pin the mouse to the ground. They eat between 0.5 and 1 kg of food each day.</p> <p><strong>Animal Foods: </strong>Birds; Mammals; Reptiles; Carrion; Insects; Terrestrial Non-insect Arthropods</p><p><strong>Plant Foods: </strong>Fruit</p><p><strong>Foraging Behavior: </strong>Stores or caches food</p>